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17 kilogram. regmaglypted individual.   Iron, IIAB

TKW 100 kilograms. Fall not observed. Found in Morocco, in 2000.


Marco writes:

Recently a substantial quantity of Iron meteorites has been found in the High Atlas Mountains of Moracco. This size specimen is a rare find.

They have been officially named Agoudal - also marketed under the name "Imilchil".

These Iron meteorites have a thick coating of weathering on them which has developed over a long period of time and actually provides some protection to the metal beneath.

The first fragment of this meteorite was harvested by a nomad. Shortly after, many pieces of this meteorite came into the Laboratory of the University Ibn Zohr. Immediately a systematic search for meteorites was conducted in 500 × 500 meter squares around the impact craters in the areas indicated by the villagers, especially around the villages of Tasrafet and Agoudal. The members of the laboratory harvested many fragments of this meteorite, well preserved in the quaternary (Upper Soltanian) layers, dated 40,000 years BP . The collected fragments on both sides of both impact craters, and those collected on the surrounding plains, are of the same nature, thus suggesting a large explosion by the impactor during a collision with the surface soil. Samples weighing 100 g to more than 9 kg were harvested several kilometers from the west to the east of the craters, demonstrating the force of the explosion or maybe the strewn field direction.

Total mass is >100 kg. Hundreds of small pieces (1-100 g), many 100-1000 g, and a few pieces >1 kg, have been recovered. The majority of collected material occurs as 2-5 cm, irregularly shaped shrapnel pieces. Most pieces have a thin weathering rind. Some smaller bullet-shaped (~cm-sized) fragments are rounded, showing well-developed fusion crust.

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